Both Republicans and Democrats in the California Assembly’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee voted last week to move forward a version of the age verification bills being sponsored around the country by anti-porn religious conservative activists.
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued a press statement last week prominently highlighting her partnership with religiously-inspired anti-porn lobby NCOSE, an organization that seeks to criminalize all sex work and eradicate adult content, and that has an extensive, well-documented history of championing state censorship and opposing LGBTQ+ rights.
A Democratic Virginia state senator has admitted that he and Republican senators used the issue of age verification for adult material as a bargaining chip to negotiate the language of an unrelated piece of legislation.
Last week, several Democratic members of Congress sponsored legislation, both in the Senate and the House, aimed at investigating the effectiveness of FOSTA-SESTA in its purported mission of fighting human trafficking.
Digital rights experts and advocates are sounding the alarm about new provisions for government intervention in online commerce outlined in the lengthy "America COMPETES" bill, which they say may result in restrictions for potentially controversial content, including porn.
The U.K.’s Liberal Democrats have soundly rejected Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposed Internet porn filtering plan at the party’s conference being held this week.
Despite resistance from public interest groups and free-speech advocates, two Congressional democrats have expressed their support for a proposal that would create a free Internet alternative that has zero adult content.
Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wisc., and his small band of fellow Patriot Act opponents were overwhelmingly outvoted when the Senate approved renewal of the U.S. Patriot Act by a vote of 89-10.
The day after one group of congressmen introduced a proposal to tax adult Internet transactions, another group held a meeting to discuss the possibility of legislation against adult content on peer-to-peer networks.
